Oxford's Light Night often features quite small installations alongside the vast and astonishing things (yards full of church bells or melting icebergs, giant flaming moons and suns dripping onto the crowds, immense parades of lit-up willow Tardises and Morris Minors). So you can find things you might imagine bringing home with you, albeit on a smaller and simpler scale.
This overhead swirl of moving, twinkling LEDs and carefully cut and curled plastic, for example. The people are playing with a sensor that activates small speakers housed in waterproof cases hanging from the same frame that supports the plastic scribble in mid-air.
Maintenance and repair (and it was a proper soggy Oxford night, so there was some of that as speakers creaked and complained in the wet air) was carried out using a domestic step ladder (visible centre in the left hand picture above) and the structure was light, flexible, robust and made of readily available materials.
I could see something similar snaking through a mature tree in a back garden, or sitting on the ridge of a greenhouse roof. It wouldn't last forever, but then again, what does?
This overhead swirl of moving, twinkling LEDs and carefully cut and curled plastic, for example. The people are playing with a sensor that activates small speakers housed in waterproof cases hanging from the same frame that supports the plastic scribble in mid-air.
Maintenance and repair (and it was a proper soggy Oxford night, so there was some of that as speakers creaked and complained in the wet air) was carried out using a domestic step ladder (visible centre in the left hand picture above) and the structure was light, flexible, robust and made of readily available materials.
I could see something similar snaking through a mature tree in a back garden, or sitting on the ridge of a greenhouse roof. It wouldn't last forever, but then again, what does?
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